The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-26

and swept it of with brooms and shov,
els. We had a lot Of shoyels aboard, by
good luck, or else nothing could have
saved as from being banked up out
right. But it was terrible hard work,
! can tell YOU. There want no more
laughing among the passengers by the
time it came to that and the children
stopped hurrahtng."
'Oh, the poor little thingsi What
did they do? Were there many on
board? Was there plenty for them TO
eat?"
That was the worst of it. There
wasn't plenty for any one to eat. We
had stuck just midway of the feeding
stations, and there wasn't a great deal
Of anything on board besides what the
passengers had in their lunch baskets.
One lady she had a tin of condensed
milk and they mixed that up for the
babies-there was ten of 'em-and so.
they got on pretty well. But there was
about five other children, not babies,
but quite little, and l don't know what
they would have done if it hadn't been
for the young lady"
The young ladyH'said Miss Vaughn,
looking up with some surprise, for with
the words a curious tremble had come
into the engineers voice. and a dark
flush into his bronzed face. What
young lady was thatP"
1t was a moment or so before John
Scott answered the question.
II don't know what she was called"
he said. slowly. Il never knew. She
was the only one on the train. so we
just called her the young lady. She
was travelling alone, but her folks had
asked the conductor to look after her.
She was going out to some relatives of
hers, her brother, | guess, who was
sick down to Sacramento. That was
how she came to be there"
Were the children under her care?"
mo, ma'am; she was all alone, as l
told you; but she took them under her
care from the very first. They had
their fathers and mothers along-three
of them had, at least, and the other
two had their mother and q nurse girl,
but somehow no one but the young lady
seemed to be able to do anything with
them. The poor little things were half
starved, you see, and there wasn't any
thing to nus 'em in the dark car.
and n of them, who was sickly, fret
ted all day, and most all night, and the
mother didn't seem to have no faculty
or no backbone about her; but when
ever the young lady came round, that
sick young one and all the rest would
stop crying and seem just as clipper
as if it were Summertime outdoors and
the whole train full of candy.
Il don't see how she didit," he went
on. ~meditatively, thowing a ~shovelful
of coal in at the furnace door. '.Some
women is made that way. I suppose.
As soon as WE see how things were CO.
ing, and how bad they was likely to be,
that girl kind Of set herself to keep
along. She had a mighty gentle way
to keep along with her, too, You'd
never have guessed that she was so
plucky. Plucky! BY George, l never
saw anything like her pluck
"Was she pretty ~ asked Miss
Vaughn, urged by truly feminine curl
osity.
WELL / don't know If you'd "a
called her so or not. We don't think
much how she looked after the first
She was . slender-built girl. and her
face looked sort OF kind and bright
both to me. Her voice was as soft
well, as soft as a voice can be. and it
kind Of sang when she felt happy. She
locked yon straight in the eye when
she spoke. don't believe the worst
man that ever lived could have told
that girl a lie if il had been to save his
life. Her hair was brown. She was
different from girls in general, some
how"
II think we may say that she was
pretty observed Miss Vaughn. with a
little smile.
II amt so sure Of that. There's
plenty Of ladies come over the road
since that 1 suppose folks would say
was better looking than she was. But
i never see any face quite like hers
II was still, ike a lake, and you SEEM
al IN fael aS IL fhere was danfh ~ Il
And 2 further you Went down, tine
sweeter it got She did any
rustling when she walked. She wasn't
that kind.
Another pause, which Miss Vaughn
sgFsas careful net to break
Il don't know what them children
would a. done without her." went on
the engineer. as if talking to himself
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